Re: Chaging uid/gid at binary install

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On Jul 10,  8:50am, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
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} Can pkgsrc change uid/gid at binary install time?

     Look up SPECIAL_PERMS in the Pkgsrc guide.  When you use it, an
INSTALL script is automatically generated which will set the
permissions on the specified files.

} Is it possible to do that in theory?

     Why would it not be?

} Is there any binary package system doing that?

     Most likely all of them.

}-- End of excerpt from Masao Uebayashi